BAWANG MERAH AND BAWANG PUTIH

Prolog : Bell is ringging and all student is in the middle of the class

Teacher : Good morning students

Students : Good morning sir

Teacher : Today we are studying about narative text. Who knows about the meaning of narrative
text?

Students : Narrative text is a text that tells about sequence of event in the past

Teacher : Can you give me an example about narrative text?

Students : Bawang Merah and Bawang Putih sir...

Teacher : yess that’s right Let me tell you the story........

Narator :

Once upon a time ,in a nice quite village, there lived a wealthy merchant, he lived together with his
daughter who was named Bawang Putih. This merchant’s wife had long since passed away. The
merchant was very fond of his daughter, because she was obedient and kind hearted.

One day, as he came home from travelling, he brought a woman and her daughter along with him.
He wanted to marry this woman. So Bawang Putih now had a stepmother and a stepsister who is
named Bawang Merah. Her stepmother name was Bawang Bombay.

Father : Bawang Putih....come here please..

BP : Yes Father, what’s going on?

Father : Let me introduce you to your new mother and sister....here is Bawang Bombay and that is
Bawang Merah...Start now I hope that we could be live together with a lot of kind of happiness..

BP : Good Afternoon mother and sister....(with gently voice)

BB : Hello Bawang Putih, I hope we have spend time together with joy and happiness forever...

BM : only smile at BP

Narator : For at that time they live with joy and happiness, until one day her father went to trade for
a longtime.

Father : BB, I will go to trade...where are BP and BM?

BB : Umm..I think they are playing in their bedroom.

Father : Take this, this is your spending money as long asi’m not home. So take care our children and
your self

BB : Don’t worry...so becarefull

Narator : And than BP Father went to trade. After that BB and BM treat BP like a servant. BP did all
the work was ordered by them. She cleaned the house, cooked, washed clothes and looked for
firewood. If BP work went wrong, BB would punish her by not feeding her.

BB : Huuhh...stupid husband! Do you think I really love you?? I just love your money....

BP......BP...

BP : yes mother

BB : Where are you from?? I have call you many times! Are you deaf??

BP : I’m sorry mom

BB : Hhmm...Now clean that clothes in the river, after that clean all rooms in this house...but before
you go prepare some brekfast for us....we are hungry....hurry...

BP : okay mother...

Narator : BP prepare some breakfast for them, after that she cleaned all room in the hoose and go to
the river to washed the clothes. BP work so hard and always punished by them, her body become
thinner, In the river she started wash their clothes, she was sleepy and hungry, her body was weak.

BP : Oh My Lord, please help me, why are they always evil to me?

Narator : Unconsiously, come a prince and his two guards

G1 : Sorry sir, I think I see a young lady over there

G2 : Right sir, She is washing some clothes

Prince : Yes right, is she alone? It’s better both of you checkher out

G1 and G2 : Yes sir

Narator : Both of guard go to see her and not taka a lot time they came back to the prince

G1 : Sir, she is alone

G2 : She looks pretty and kind sir...

Prince : Let’s go there

G1 and G2 : Yes sir

Prince : Hi miss...what’s your name ? Where are you from? And why do you alone in this river?

BP : Umm...my name is Bawang Putih Sir, and I come from a village over there. But sorry sir, I have to
go home now...I was afraid my mother scolded me.

Prince : Hey wait....wait...hey miss don’t go....wait...Guards follow her, I want to know where does
she go...

Narator : Because of BP sudden rush run avoid the prince, she didn’t realize that her stepmother
favorite scarf had washed away in the river. Meanwhile the prince and his two guards went to follow
BP. The prince was fall in love with BP at the first sight. Finally they arrived at BP house’s. BP already
inside the house.

BB : BM, Look at that ( the prince) who is coming?

BM : Yes mother, he is a prince...OMG he looks handsome (with amaze face)

BB : Be calm dear, I think he looking for some one....

BM : Yes mother, I think he looking for me....hahahahaha ( BM start to laugh with a flirtatious voice)

BB : shhh...be quite..

Prince : Excuse me....

BB : yes sir...what your purpose to come to my house?

Prince : I want to marry your daughter was named BP

BM : Why do you like BP? Just look at me...I’m pretty...i’m look good, obedient and loyal. I’m not like
BP, she look ugly

Prince : You are right, you are beautiful, sweet and attractive miss, but unfortunately my heart is
goes to BP, please call her to see me miss

BM : huh...i don’t want to call her, besides that she is not home...I don’t know where she is...

BB : Yes sir, we don’t know where she is. I think she is playing somewhere...

Narator : The prince force them to call BP, but BB and BM were subborn they didn’t want to call her.
The prince is very upset and he went home without see BP. Meanwhile BP has realize that BB scarf
was not in the basket that she took. She decided to go back down the river to look for the scarf. In
the river, she met a farmer who was washing his cow.

BP : Uncle, did you see a red scarf floating down the river?

The Farmer : Red Scraf?? Oh yeaah i saw it. The scarf was taken by an old woman and she live on the
mountain.
Narator : BP immediately headed up over the mountain. BP knocked on the old woman house.

BP : excuse me, grandma, did you find my mother red scarf??

Old woman : Hi dear, lets go in...whats your name??

BP : My name is Bawang Putih

Narator : The old woman will give the scarf with one comdition. BP must help her first. BP agree and
she helped old woman cook, look for firewood, clean the house and wash clothes. Finally all work
done and BP prepare to leave the old woman house. The old woman give the scarf.

BP : BP, Please choose which one that you like...

Narator : on the table there were small and large pumpkins. BP choose the small one.

BP : Hmm i choose the small one, grandma

Old woman : okay but remember you can’t open the pumpkin until you get home understand???

BP : Okay grandma...I will do everything you say

Then.....

BB : where have you been BP? How dare you go out without my permission/

BP : Forgive me mother, I was....

Narator : BB and BM would not hear BP said, they beat her continously. Then they saw the pumpkin.

BB : Cut the pumpkin and cooked it...we are starving

BM : and make it fast ....H U R R Y.....

Narator : BP took a knife and split the pumpkin....what a surprise the pumpkin full of sparkling and
expensive jewellery.

BM : Hey..where did you get the pumpkin??

Narator : BP told them everything. After they hear all of BP story...in the next day...they went to the
river and deliberately washed away the red scarf. They followed the scarf in the silent. And finally
the red scarf picked by an old woman. They folowed the old woman up to the mountain.

BM : Aaahh I’m tired...Lets go home..

BB : BM, be patient ! Soon we will get even more jewellery than BP

BM : But i’m tired mom

BB : I said be patient!!

Narator : Finally they arrived at the old woman house and knocked the door.

Old woman : Hi dear...what is going on?

BM : Dear grandma, did you find my mother red scarf?

Old woman : Oh yes...but before i give it to you, can you help me do some homework?

Narator : They said yes, but they couldn’t stop complaining

BM : I’m so tired...if it weren’t for the pumpkin, I wouldn’t do this

BB : yeaah, I’m also tired. Hopelly there will be even more jewellery inside the pumpkin....hahahaha

Narator : Finally they finished the work. The old woman give the scarf to BM and told them to
choose the pumpkin.

Old woman : Choose one pumpkin as a gift from me....

BM : Of course grandma, I choose the big one...

BB : Yeaaah choose the big one...

Old woman : Remember don’t open the pumpkinbefore you get home

BM : yess grandma for sure..

Narator : BB and BM do not obey the grandma, they split the pumpkin before they were home.

BM : Mom, Let’s just open yhis pumpkin now.....the old woman will not know..

BB : Yeaah...lets open this...i’m also curious...

Narator : They split the pumpkin and quite a surprise...because inside the pumpkins there were
venomous animals such as snakes, scorpions, and spider. They were both bitten by snake

BM : aww...aww...aww... it hurts !! Aww...Ouch...!! Mom Ouch what should we do

mom...help...help...

Narator : They run as fast as they can run to avoid the snake, but no one came to help them. BB and
BM died from the snakebite. Meanwhile they go...BP Father’s got home and BP very very happy to
see her father again. They talk together and suddenly the door was knocked. BP open the door and
see the prince and his guards in front of her. BP invite prince to come in and meet her father. The
prince told the purpose that he come to the house.
Prince : Sir, i came here to purpose you one thing

Father : yes...what is your purpose?

Prince : I want to marry your daughter named Bawang Putih

Father : BP, what’s your answer?

BP : Yes father, I want him to be my husband

Narator : 3 month after that The prince and BP married in the pallace and they live happily ever and
after, BP told her father about BB and BM do when he was not home. Her father was very angry but
finally he know that BB and BM were punished by their greed. Then BP Father’s just focus on his
daughter happiness.

The bell is ringing.....and the teacher end his class with an advice to his students

Teacher : so...what’s the point that you can take of this story?? The point is Laziness and greed will
bring disaster to us, so don’t forget to do good things and be patient because doing good can make
our lives happy

THE END